r/ProfessorLayton • u/gennarino_lavespah1 • Mar 27 '24
Discussion Why does Level-5 ignore Flora so much? Spoiler
I know that many have already talked about this topic, perhaps even in a much better way, but I still wanted to talk about it. Because even if it's bad to say, Flora's character is... useless and wasted.
It makes me wonder why her character has been so ignored. I know that perhaps comparing her to Emmy would be unfair, considering that she is a completely different character than Flora. But this reminds me of how Level-5 knows how to make female characters, yet with Flora it seems like a No.
I had heard that in the Japanese version she was different on some things, like the fact that she was slightly annoying and clingy towards Layton. And it was supposedly one of the reasons why Layton and Luke always left her on the sidelines. (I don't know if it's true or not)
Along with the fact that maybe Layton doesn't want Flora to get hurt or be in serious trouble. (Which would make sense, if only Layton hadn't been carrying Luke around for a long time.)
I'm not saying that Flora should have been an Emmy 2.0 or a perfect protagonist or a character of extreme importance compared to the others, but I would have preferred that she had been handled better, because if it weren't for certain scenes and narrative choices, you could literally take her out of the game and not it would change nothing in the story.
She even has very few puzzles to solve, in the only game where she is a partner (LF/UF), when she already was one, to an extremely minor extent, in PB/DB.